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HOT SHOTS – TODAY’S TOP FIVE STORIES
Army Corps Sides with Tribes, Blocks Coal Port near
Bellingham (Yakima Herald-Republic,
WA)
Puget Sound Salmon Deal May Soon End Season Stalemate (KING-TV, Seattle, WA)
SolarCity Stock Dives to Three-Year Low on Growing Losses,
Lowered Outlook (Silicon Valley Business Journal, CA)
Chelan PUD Maintains Historic Spill Rate on Chelan Dam to
Sustain Lake Levels (KPQ Radio,
Wenatchee, WA)
Including “Sparky the Danger Bear” – Orphaned Black Bears
Wintering At Idaho Rehab Center Will Return to Wild Tuesday (KBOI-TV, Boise,
ID)
NEWS HIGHLIGHTS (Details Below)
- Army Corps Sides with Tribes, Blocks Coal Port near Bellingham
- Bear River Narrows – Feds Move Forward Rejecting Southeast Idaho Dam Project
- Arizona Lawmakers Pass Bill Altering Conflict-of-Interest Standards for Utility Regulators
- California Governor Calls for Independent Utility Infrastructure Safety Monitor
- ComEd Jumps on the Residential Demand Charge Train with New Illinois Proposal
- Fitch: Evolving Policies May Challenge U-S Public Power Liquidity
- Puget Sound Salmon Deal May Soon End Season Stalemate
- Chelan PUD Maintains Historic Spill Rate on Chelan Dam to Sustain Lake Levels
- California's Drought Restrictions Will Be Permanent Because the Drought Probably Will Be, Too
- SolarCity Stock Dives to Three-Year Low on Growing Losses, Lowered Outlook
- Riding the ‘Solarcoaster’ as Shares Plunge Even More than Coal
- Fitch: Smooth Sailing Ahead for U-S Wind Power
- Oregon: Worried About Sending Wrong Message on Pot, Hermiston Dumps 'You Can Grow Here' Tagline
- Mason County Transit Looking at Electric Buses
- Drones Can Now Livestream Straight to Periscope
- How the Facebook News Feed Works: Changes Marketers Need to Know
- Including “Sparky the Danger Bear” – Orphaned Black Bears Wintering At Idaho Rehab Center Will Return to Wild Tuesday
- Here’s Sparky’s Shelton Backstory: BPA Employees Help Rescue Bear Cub in Shelton
- City of Shelton Down Two Long-Time Employees
- Investigators Believe Wildfires in British Columbia’s Peace Region Deliberately Set
Descry • \dih-SKRYE\ • Verb – *1: to catch sight of 2: find
out, discover
Bundled deep in the switch grass fields of Nebraska,
contemplating his latest treatise on renewable energy, Francisco was slipping
in and out of sleep as he descried buzzards lazily circling in the sky directly
overhead. Unfortunately for him, that was the last thing he saw, as a
harvesting machine snatched up the hummock of grass in which he was nestled.
How ironic that the famous ethanol researcher was to become a tank of fuel
himself.
ENERGY & UTILITY ISSUES
Army Corps Sides with Tribes, Blocks Coal Port near Bellingham
(Yakima Herald-Republic, WA)
Bear River Narrows – Feds Move Forward Rejecting Southeast Idaho
Dam Project (Spokesman Review,
Spokane, WA)
Arizona Lawmakers Pass Bill Altering Conflict-of-Interest
Standards for Utility Regulators (Utility Dive)
California Governor Calls for Independent Utility
Infrastructure Safety Monitor (Utility Dive)
ComEd Jumps on the Residential Demand Charge Train with New Illinois
Proposal (Utility Dive)
Fitch: Evolving Policies May Challenge U-S Public Power
Liquidity (BusinessWire)
FISH & WILDLIFE
Puget Sound Salmon Deal May Soon End Season Stalemate
WATER & THE ENVIRONMENT
Chelan PUD Maintains Historic Spill Rate on Chelan Dam to
Sustain Lake Levels (KPQ Radio,
Wenatchee, WA)
California's Drought Restrictions Will Be Permanent Because
the Drought Probably Will Be, Too (Gizmodo)
RENEWABLE ENERGY
SolarCity Stock Dives to Three-Year Low on Growing Losses,
Lowered Outlook (Silicon Valley Business Journal, CA)
Riding the ‘Solarcoaster’ as Shares Plunge Even More than
Coal (Bloomberg News)
Fitch: Smooth Sailing Ahead for U-S Wind Power
(BusinessWire)
KILOWATTS FOR CANNABIS
Oregon: Worried About Sending Wrong Message on Pot, Hermiston
Dumps 'You Can Grow Here' Tagline (Oregonian, Portland)
SCIENCE SWIMS IN A BARREL O’ GREEN POTPOURRI
Mason County Transit Looking at Electric Buses (Kitsap Sun, Bremerton, WA – Paywall
Advisory)
MARKETING & MEDIA
Drones Can Now Livestream Straight to Periscope (AdWeek)
How the Facebook News Feed Works: Changes Marketers Need to
Know (Social Media Examiner)
GENERAL NEWS
Including “Sparky the Danger Bear” – Orphaned Black Bears
Wintering At Idaho Rehab Center Will Return to Wild Tuesday (KBOI-TV, Boise,
ID)
Here’s Sparky’s Shelton Backstory: BPA employees help rescue
bear cub in Shelton (Bonneville
Power Administration)
City of Shelton Down Two Long-Time Employees (Mason Web TV,
Shelton, WA)
Investigators Believe Wildfires in British Columbia’s Peace Region
Deliberately Set (Globe & Mail, Canada)
ALLIGATORS IN THE SEWER – DIVERSIONS
Live Python Falls from Hospital Ceiling a Month after
Escaping Its Owner
These Restaurant Employees Should Probably Stop Mocking
Customers on Their Tabs (Note PG-13 Language)
WSU Cougars have best logo in college football, Reddit users
say
SONG OF THE DAY
Louis Prima - Sing,Sing,Sing
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